"Thou hast naught but rumor-- why, I did not think of it," Harry says. "But of course 'tis so. Reports from one end of the country to t'other can scarce be trusted, what can can be said of tales from another land?"

"But all was as Rollo said 'twould be," he is quick to add. "Though even so, I know not-- I know not if I would venture so again. It is too like a hired sword, to ever fight in another's cause."